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If Diablo 3 was a girl ...

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VideoSift shares a funny one minute and 53 seconds YouTube video showing a parody/spoof of recent Diablo 3 issues

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The floppy disk means save, and fourteen/14 other old people icons that don't make sense anymore.

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/. shares Scott Hanselman's blog on how "the floppy disk means save, and 14/fourteen other old people icons that don't make sense anymore. What happens when all the things we based our icons on don't exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery? ..."

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What laser is good for ...

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Neatorama shares a funny Pleated Jeans comic strip showing what laser is good

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Filthy Personal Computers (PCs): The X-rated circus of horrors ..."

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FailDesk shares an old eleven pages The Register article showing "filthy personal computers (PCs): the X-rated circus of horrors

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Leonardo da Vinci: How accurate were his anatomy drawings?

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BBC News, with a 2.5 minutes embedded video, answer how accurate were Leonardo da Vinci's anatomy drawings -- "During his lifetime, Leonardo made thousands of pages of notes and drawings on the human body.

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Two Comic Strips of "May Day" 2012 (first day of May and a holiday for India).

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Two comic strips of the day that woke your BUSY and sleepy overlord up

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Special Effects & The Empire Strikes Back Documentary from the 1980.

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VideoSift shares a 48.25 minutes YouTube video documentary, with Japanese subtitles from the 1980, showing special effects

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The Old Ways We Explained New Tech(nology)

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BuzzFeed shares "The Old Ways We Explained New Tech(nology) -- When a technology is still new, reporters can't mention it without explaining it. Here's how the The New York Times (NYT) first tech-splained the most important new inventions of the last 135 years ..."

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Geeks/Nerds as Bullies

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Ahh, the sides have switced between geeks/nerds and the non-nerdy/geeky bullies as shown on Fail Blog.

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Sherry Turkle's Talks: Connected, but alone?

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VideoSift shares a nineteen and 48 seconds TED video talk -- "As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication -- and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.

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Digital Differences in Americans.

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Pew Internet article, with its details, showing "Digital Differences" -- "When the Pew Internet Project first began writing about the role of the internet in American life in 2000, there were stark differences between those who were using the internet and those who were not. Today, differences in internet access still exist among different demographic groups, especially when it comes to access to high-speed broadband at home. Among the main findings about the state of digital access..."

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The Great Google Easter Egg Roundup

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HardOCP shares a PCWorld article, with many links, showing "The Great Google Easter Egg Roundup -- Hidden deep in Google's world

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Which one would win in a space battle?

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